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Your Sade Sati, with the dates
Sade Sati is the roughly seven and a half years Saturn spends crossing the sign before your Moon, your Moon sign itself, and the sign after it. Most tools will tell you whether it is running. This one gives you the date each of the three phases begins and ends, because a period you cannot date is a period you cannot plan around.
| Moon sign | Today | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Mesha (Aries) | Running, phase 1 of 3 | ends 31 May 2032 |
| Vrishabha (Taurus) | Not running | next begins 3 June 2027 |
| Mithuna (Gemini) | Not running | next begins 8 August 2029 |
| Karka (Cancer) | Not running | next begins 31 May 2032 |
| Simha (Leo) | Not running | next begins 13 July 2034 |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Not running | next begins 27 August 2036 |
| Tula (Libra) | Not running | next begins 22 October 2038 |
| Vrischika (Scorpio) | Not running | next begins 28 January 2041 |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Not running | next begins 11 December 2043 |
| Makara (Capricorn) | Not running | |
| Kumbha (Aquarius) | Running, phase 3 of 3 | ends 23 February 2028 |
| Meena (Pisces) | Running, phase 2 of 3 | ends 17 April 2030 |
The same for everyone with that Moon sign. If you do not know yours, the form below works it out from your birth details.
You have the dates. What nobody tells you is where it lands.
Two people in the same phase of Sade Sati on the same day do not have the same year, and the difference is not luck. It is which house Saturn is crossing in your chart, how many bindus that house carries, and what your running dasha is doing underneath it. The table above is the same for everyone born under your Moon sign. The reading is not.
- Which area of your life this phase is actually sitting in: work, money, health, or home
- What your chart says Saturn delivers here, not only what it takes
- The dated sub-periods inside the phase, so you know which months are the heavy ones
- What to do in it, and which remedies your chart says you can ignore entirely
10 written sections, 10 years forward, about 29 minutes to read. Written in five to ten minutes, in English or Hinglish, and emailed to you.
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What the three phases actually differ in
The first phase, Saturn in the twelfth from your Moon, usually shows up as expense, sleep and a sense of carrying something alone. The peak phase, Saturn over the Moon itself, is the one that touches mood and health directly. The final phase, Saturn in the second, tends to sit in money and family rather than in the body. The three do not feel alike and treating them as one seven year block is why the reputation is worse than the reality.
Dhaiya, the small panoti
Saturn crossing the fourth and the eighth from your Moon is a separate two and a half year pressure, often confused with Sade Sati because it arrives in the gap between them. We list those windows separately below the main table rather than folding them in, so you can see which is which.
How this is calculated
Positions come from Skyfield and the JPL DE440s ephemeris, with our own Lahiri ayanamsa referred to the mean equinox of date. Every planet agrees with Swiss Ephemeris to under one arcsecond, and the lunar node to under a tenth of one. We publish that because nobody else in this market publishes theirs.
- Skyfield. The astronomy library that computes every position on this site.
- JPL planetary ephemerides. NASA JPL's ephemeris export page. The DE440s kernel we load is the source of every raw planetary position.
- Capitaine, Wallace and Chapront (2003), IAU 2006 precession. The precession expressions our Lahiri ayanamsa is carried forward with from its J2000 anchor.
- Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkata. The India Meteorological Department office that publishes the Rashtriya Panchang, which defines the Lahiri ayanamsa.
- Swiss Ephemeris. The reference implementation we test against: under one arcsecond on every planet. It is used only in our test suite, never on this site.
Questions about your sade sati, with the dates
Is Sade Sati always bad?
No. It is a period of load, not a period of loss. Saturn rewards work that was already being done properly and exposes work that was not. The people who report it as devastating are usually in the peak phase with a weak natal Moon; the people who barely notice it are usually already living the way Saturn asks.
Which Moon sign is used, the Indian one or the Western one?
The sidereal Moon sign, which is the Vedic one. If you have been told a Moon sign by a Western astrologer it will usually be one sign later than the one used here, and the Sade Sati dates would then be wrong by about two and a half years.
Does Sade Sati happen more than once?
Yes. Saturn takes about twenty nine and a half years to go round, so most people get two full passes in a normal lifespan and some get three. The second one, usually in the late thirties or forties, is the one people remember.
Why do your dates differ from another site by a few days?
Because a sign change is a moment, not a day, and most free tools read it from a table rather than computing it. Ours is computed from the JPL ephemeris and refined to the crossing. If a date matters to you, treat the boundary week as the boundary rather than the exact day.
Do I need my birth time for this?
Not strictly. Sade Sati depends on your Moon sign, and the Moon takes about two and a quarter days to change sign, so an approximate time usually gives the right answer. We still ask, because a birth near a Moon sign change is exactly the case where an approximate time gives the wrong one, and we would rather tell you.
. The calculation is live; this date is when the writing on this page was last reviewed.